Art has always been my passion. After graduation from Middle Tennessee State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree I enjoyed a long career as a graphic designer. My clients included Andy Griffith, Aaron Neville and CeCe Winans to name a few. Then by chance a client asked me to create a series of paintings…that one project re-ignited my original love of painting. I retired from computers and client meetings to pasture’s and tubes of oil paint!  I paint every chance I get… from the beautiful Appalachian mountain range to the Grand Tetons, wild mountain thyme in the Scottish Highlands, or quiet marshes along the bay, nature is my muse. 
 
Influenced by the Impressionist artists of the past and American Plein Air artists past and present, my goal as a painter is to reflect the incredible scene that the natural world presents to me.
 
My studio is located on the peaceful Eastern Shore of a small town I now call home, Fairhope, Alabama. Painting in my studio from small Plein Air sketches allows me to bring the scene back in a fresh exciting way. 
 
I am truly privileged to have continued my painters education with several nationally recognized landscape artists: Roger Dale Brown, Howard Friedland, and Scott Christensen. 
 
Awards: 
2023 American Impressionist Society 7th Annual Small Works Showcase Honorable Mention Wet Wall Competition
2023 Shadows on the Teche Plein Air – Quick Draw, First Place
2022 Plein Air in the Smokies Inaugural Event – Quick Draw, Best of Show
2021 Award of Excellence American Impressionist Small Works Show, Reinert Fine Art Gallery, Charleston, SC
2019 2nd Place Award – District Gallery, Juried event ” Tiny Big Show” of small works – Knoxville, TN 
2019 Honorable Mention Award – Knoxville Museum Of Art “Artist On Location” a Juried Plein Air competition
2017 Haven Foundation Award – Oil Painting 
2016 Award of Acknowledgement for Oils, The Pryor Art Gallery, Juried Show
2011 Best In Show – Oil Painter, Maury County “Art For The Parks” 
 
 
Juried Shows and Events:
2010 Maury Regional Hospital Foundation “Art Effects” Columbia, TN
2011 Maury Regional Hospital Foundation “Art Effects” Columbia, TN
2013 Maury Regional Hospital Foundation “Art Effects” Columbia, TN
2014 Maury Regional Hospital Foundation “Art Effects” Columbia, TN
2019 Knoxville Museum of Art “Artist On Location” Juried Plein Air competition
2019 Montgomery Bell Academy  “Juried Art Show” Nashville, TN
2020 David Lipscomb  – “Juried The Art Event 2020” Nashville, TN
2020 American Impressionist Online Exhibition Juried competition “Summer In the Cove” 
2020 Oil Painters Of America Eastern Regional Juried Exhibition “Life on the Edge”
2021 American Impressionist Small Works Show Juried Exhibition “Whitson Bend” 
2021 Oil Painters Of America National Show Juried Exhibition “Remembering Spring”
2021 Knoxville Museum of Art “Artist On Locaition” Juried Plein Air competition
2021 National Oil & Acrylic Society’s Spring Online Exhibition “Awakening Path”
2022 Shadows-on-the-Teche Juried Plein Air Competition
2022 American Impressionist Smallworks Show Juried Exhibition “Serenity and Sage”
2022 American Impressionist Associate Members Online Exhibition Juried competition “Remembering Spring”
2022 American Impressionist National Show Juried Exhibition “Chamisa Vista” 
2023 American Impressionist Smallworks Show Juried Exhibition ” Appalachian veiling”
2023 Shadows-on-the-Teche Juried Plein Air Competition
2023 American Impressionist National Show Juried Exhibition “High Roads of Taos” 
2023 Oil Painters of America Eastern Reginonal Juried Exhibition “On the Edge of Spring”
 
Awards Judge:
2022 Kentucky Women In The Arts Event, Bowling Green, KY
2023 Plein Air in the Mountains, Gilmer Arts Association, Elijay, GA 
2023 Paint Kingsport Plein Air Event, Kingsport, TN
 
Memberships:
PAP-SE Plein Air Painters of the South East
Associate Member Oil Painters Of America
Associate Member American Impressionist Society, Inc.
Member National Oil and Acrylic Painters’ Society
Eastern Shore Art Association
The Chestnut Group
2021 President The Chestnut Group, landscape painters dedicated to the conservation and  preservation of vanishing landscapes in Middle Tennessee. www.chestnutgroup.org